This message was sent to ##Email## To advertise in this publication please click here March 25, 2021 .NEWS 2021 Symposium Spotlight: Innovation in Geoscience — Implications of Emerging Technologies and Their Applications PGO Panel Session D: April 29, 2021 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET The world is changing for everyone, including geoscientists. Our sources of energy, advancements in monitoring, the use of machine learning and the handling of “big geoscience data” will be explored by our four speakers in this session. The green economy requires new resources for renewable energy while monitoring and operations on geoscience-related projects are taking new paths with advanced learning approaches through machines and other means. Advancements in geoscience are generating large volumes of data that need new methods of handling and evaluation to be of use to society. Join this session co-chaired by Mark Priddle and Tony Andrews to gain an understanding of some new technologies/approaches and most importantly, their applications in geoscience. Click on symposium to see the full program. Available online! Professional Practice Guidelines for Geomorphologists PGO PGO is introducing the recently Council-approved Professional Practice Guidelines for Geomorphologists. These guidelines have been prepared to assist Professional Geoscientists (P.Geo.’s) in the planning and execution of geomorphological programs. These guidelines may also assist Professional Engineers (P.Eng.’s) who are qualified to practice professional geoscience in accordance with The Professional Geoscientist’s Act, 2000. PGO would like to acknowledge the work of our Geomorphology Subcommittee in developing this professional practice resource. READ MORE PGO thanks Pizye Nankamba, Tafa Gomwe, Abraham Drost, P.Geo. and Jim Gallagher, P.Eng. PGO Last week, PGO’s Councillors, Pizye Nankamba (North West) and Tafa Gomwe (North East) hosted a virtual networking event featuring guest speakers, Jim Gallagher and Abraham Drost of Clean Air Metals Inc. Jim and Abraham presented on “The Thunder Bay North Project and Why North Western Ontario has Become a Global Exploration Hotspot for Metals for the Clean Air Revolution.” The event was well attended and very well received with P.Geo.’s comprising the majority of attendees. PGO thanks Pizye and Tafa for taking the lead to launch this virtual networking event. We thank Abraham and Jim for giving a very engaging talk on their Thunder Bay North Project and for sharing insights on career paths and about the industry with students who were present at the event. We also thank our registrants and students who helped spread the word about our event and for showing up online to participate in the learning and connecting with each other.  PRODUCT SHOWCASE Instrumentation GDD Inc. Instrumentation GDD Inc. is a world leader in high-tech geophysical instrumentation for mining and exploration geophysics. Since 1977, GDD has developed, manufactured and sold a wide range of electromagnetic (EM) and induced polarization geophysical instruments. LEARN MORE Add PGO to Your Whitelist PGO To ensure that you receive timely emails from PGO, please add PGO emails — *@pgo.ca — to your whitelist. Whitelisting an email means you add emails coming from PGO to your approved senders’ list. If you require any assistance, please send an email to info@pgo.ca. .WHAT'S NEW Disclaimer: The events and media articles featured in Field Notes do not express or reflect the opinions of Professional Geoscientists Ontario, or any employee thereof. Gaining a New Perspective: Indigenous Peoples of Canada Hosted by CIM Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee March 26, 2021 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT This is an opportunity to learn more about Canada’s Indigenous peoples and why we are where we are today in this country we call Canada, especially around mineral exploration and mining. What do we mean when we talk about Aboriginal rights and title, and our treaty rights? READ MORE Applied MSc in Mineral Exploration Earn your MSc in Mineral Exploration – Geology in 1-2 years at Laurentian University’s Harquail School of Earth Sciences to upgrade your credentials and your career. LEARN MORE Don't miss Kawartha Region Earth Scientists and Engineers and Metallurgists (KREEM) Virtual Networking Event KREEM April 6, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Guest Speaker: Thomas Gore, M.Sc., GIT. presenting on “From Discovery to Approval — The Journey of a New Mineral — Melansonite from Mont St-Hilaire” READ MORE .IN THE MEDIA Disclaimer: The media articles featured in Field Notes do not express or reflect the opinions of Professional Geoscientists Ontario, or any employee thereof. Canada and Ontario invest in 37 clean water, wastewater and storm water infrastructure improvement projects for First Nation communities across the province Government of Ontario All First Nation communities must have reliable access to clean water, as it is essential to their well-being. This work is not only about improving community infrastructure, but also about restoring trust in the water supply and ensuring that future generations do not have to face the same challenges. Together, Canada, Ontario and First Nation communities are working to ensure health and safety, rebuild businesses, and promote job creation, growth and investment. READ MORE Construction progressing on Côté mine site TimminsToday.com The City of Timmins is expected to play a major role in the future of IAMGOLD's Côté Gold Project once the recruitment process begins late this year. The project is located 20 kilometres southwest of the village of Gogama, and approximately 130 kilometres southwest of Timmins. Last September, an official groundbreaking ceremony was held, which was attended by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as well as Ontario Premier Doug Ford, among other officials. READ MORE U.S. looks to Canada for minerals to build EVs Driving The U.S. government is working to help American miners and battery makers expand into Canada, part of a strategy to boost regional production of minerals used to make electric vehicles and counter Chinese competitors. The U.S. Department of Commerce recently held a closed-door virtual meeting with miners and battery manufacturers to discuss ways to boost Canadian production of EV materials, according to documents seen by Reuters. READ MORE Ignace still an option for Canada's used nuclear waste DrydenNow.com The Township of Ignace continues to be a front-runner for a future $23 billion project involving Canada’s used nuclear waste. Municipal staff in Ignace are working with the Nuclear Waste Management Organization as one of two potential host communities for a $23 billion deep-geological nuclear waste storage facility, along with South Bruce. READ MORE Manitoulin Island deemed a highly threatened ecoregion OrilliaMatters.com The Manitoulin-Lake Simcoe ecoregion was identified as one of southern Canada’s nine most significant and threatened places for biodiversity conservation in a recent study conducted by Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) and published in the journal Biodiversity and Conservation. The conservation assessment analyzed 77 ecoregions across the southern part of Canada for biodiversity, threat and conservation response. READ MORE Microplastics and algae tangle in the Great Lakes EcoWatch Great Lakes algae is catching huge amounts of microplastics. Researchers found that one type of algae, which has greatly expanded its range within the Great Lakes and is one of the most abundant algae by weight there, could catch up to one trillion pieces of microplastic in the Great Lakes. "It's just a massive amount of these microscopic particle pollutants that are now part of our environment," Julie Peller, a professor of chemistry at Valparaiso University whose recent research revealed the microplastics-algae dynamic, told EHN. READ MORE Unique rocks provide new insights into Earth's history Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel An international group of geoscientists under participation of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel was now able to prove a yet unknown type of oceanic basalts in samples from the region. They record in a unique way the start to a new subduction zone, along which one tectonic plate subsides into the Earth’s mantle where it will be recycled. READ MORE When is a crater not a crater? Atlas Obscura Rocks in space collide with things — Earth included — all the time, but in human history these collisions have mostly been small events that make little lasting impact. Go back long enough, and massive impacts start to appear in the geological record. And the solar system’s youth was downright barbaric: momentous impacts left, right, and center. While the scars of impacts on Mercury, the Moon, and Mars have more or less been preserved over billions of years in their pockmarked surfaces, Earth has plate tectonics and weather and oceans and life. READ MORE Melting glaciers contribute to Alaska earthquakes University of Alaska Fairbanks In 1958, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake triggered a rockslide into Southeast Alaska’s Lituya Bay, creating a tsunami that ran 1,700 feet up a mountainside before racing out to sea. Researchers now think the region’s widespread loss of glacier ice helped set the stage for the quake. In a recently published research article, scientists with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute found that ice loss near Glacier Bay National Park has influenced the timing and location of earthquakes with a magnitude of 5.0 or greater in the area during the past century. READ MORE   Field Notes Connect with PGO Bernard Kradjian, Marketing & Communications Specialist — PGO, 416-203-2746 ext. 23 | Send Feedback Marilen Miguel, Director of Stakeholder Relations — PGO, 416-203-2746 ext. 24 | Send Feedback Jason Zimmerman, Director of Publishing, Multiview, 469-420-2686 | Download media kit Josh Mandel, MultiView Canada, VP Sales, 289-695-5372 Victoria Scott, Content Editor, Multiview, 289-695-5367 | Contribute News Professional Geoscientists Ontario 25 Adelaide Street East, Suite 1100  |  Toronto, Ontario M5C 3A1  416-203-2746  |  Contact Us  |  www.pgo.ca Click here to unsubscribe.  Learn how to add us to your safe sender list so our emails get to your inbox. 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